Full spoilers for the finale follow! Chuck Bartowski, you, your friends, your family and the love of your life, Sarah Walker, shall be missed.

"Chuck Versus The Goodbye", like the episode that proceeded it, was very emotional, that's for sure. Though with Sarah not actively trying to kill Chuck, there was at least room for more light-hearted moments in the classic Chuck tradition. Case in point, Morgan's incredulous and wonderfully hurt, "Spy van? Really, was it that obvious?!"

I re-watched the Chuck pilot this week, something I was very glad to have done when I saw the finale. There were a lot of callbacks to that first episode, as Chuck realized there were some rather notable correlations between the mission he and Sarah were on to track down Quinn and events from their first "date" way back when. It may not have been subtle (nor was it trying to be), but it was very funny when we moved past just the pilot, and fate (and Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak) brought Chuck and Sarah to a Weinerlicious – and the first sign that "our" Sarah was indeed still in there, as she found herself re-organizing at the place she once worked.

I have to say that Casey's subplot, as he became "the old Casey," felt unnecessary. Yes, in "Chuck Versus Sarah," Casey having been "softened" came up, but Casey himself seemed pretty accepting of that fact, as he went to Sarah to help her at the end. And Casey and Beckman feeling he needed to transform himself to get back his killer edge didn't sit right, considering this is the same guy who just a few episodes ago, in "Chuck Versus The Business Trip," hunted down and killed The Viper and all her men, to protect himself and the people he cared about. His love for Alex has been well established, and he's certainly more cuddly than when we met him five years ago, but John Casey is still a BAMF. But at least when that was all said and done, we got to see the big guy give big ol' hugs to both Alex (aww…) and Chuck (Awww!!!).

The end of the episode marked big changes for almost every character – even the Buy More (and that's a Chuck character, damn it!), which got one final new owner… Subway, naturally! I loved this last final bit of blatant product integration, for a sandwich franchise that will forever be linked with Chuck. Though I do wonder, how/why/when did Chuck decide to sell the Buy More? Also, yeesh, Awesome and Ellie were already packing to move?! That Chicago hospital didn't mess around!

Overall though, this episode functioned as an incredibly lovely and loving look back and within for both Chuck the series and Chuck & Sarah, the couple. It was awesome to see Mark Pellegrino, reprising a role from a single episode from Season 2, as a Fulcrum agent, and how Quinn's search for The Key (one last "The" object!) also involved tracking down a former Ring agent (Vladimir Kulich), as both of the big, evil organizations from Chuck's history got to tie into the end of the series. And the little digs at The Ring from Pellegrino's Edgar – "The Ring… what amateurs!" – and Quinn -- "I never liked The Ring" – were very funny.

Having Mary Bartowski (Linda Hamilton) appear was another deft way to connect the events of the final into the greater Chuck mythology, especially when she mentioned Steve Bartowski, Hartley Winterbottom (AKA Alexei Volkoff) and Ted Roark working on the Intersect together. Man, I would have loved to have seen some flashbacks to that! That being said, it was one of many amazingly touching moments in the finale when Ellie told Chuck, one last time, "Aces, Charles, aces," as a reminder of their father.

Just about everyone got at least one moment in the spotlight here – even longtime Nerd Herd extras, Skip and Fernando, got to talk in the finale! (A very nice touch both for longtime viewers familiar with seeing these guys through the years, and for those hard working extras Michael Kawczynski and Jesse Heiman). And the fact that Jeffster, who we love, but you know, aren't actually a great band, are destined for stardom in Germany was just the right out of nowhere/comedic twist. Hey, who better to open for Hasselhoff than Jeff and Lester? And yes, they rocked "Take On Me," just as we all knew they would with such a song.

Quinn had some amusing lines, but as a character, didn't really substantial or fully formed – though he did give us what I believe is Chuck's one and only use of the word pussy! (well, "pussies" if you want to be technical). Quinn's lack of depth was forgivable though, since so much pathos came from what he had done to Sarah and the quest to undo that. [Whoops, it's been pointed out to me that Emmett (Tony Hale) was the first to say "pussy" on Chuck, moments before he was killed. On this show, that word always showed up in violent scenes, didn't it?!]

A great moment for Chuck was when he put those Intersect glasses on again, despite the danger that it meant he'd never get Sarah back. We know Sarah means everything to him, and yet Chuck is a hero and wasn't going to let Beckman (or anyone else in the vicinity, his other friends included) die, even it meant risking his own happiness.

The very last scene of the series was incredibly poignant and touching. The fact that Sarah was on that same beach where she found a suitably shaken Chuck at the end of the pilot, the way he told her their story (and thus the story of the series), and seeing her laughing and crying reactions to it all… If you love these two characters, how could you not feel a bit weepy watching it?

I really admired that we didn't get that "I remember everything! " moment from Sarah, instead ending on a more subtle note with a kiss that could or could not be "magic." I think it's very clear that Sarah has rediscovered her love of Chuck and will be with him, but it would be sad to imagine her still not really remembering the past five years, including her relationships with all the other characters – and I'll tell you, my wife sure wanted that moment where it all came back to her to be explicit! But personally, I feel like we saw enough signs of things coming back that weren't only about Chuck -- including Weinerlicious and the one and only Irene Demova (awesome callback to the pilot!) -- to conclude that slowly but surely, she would remember everything.

The end of the show left us with the knowledge that somewhere out there, Chuck, Sarah, Casey, Morgan and everyone else could have more adventures together one day. After all, Chuck has the Intersect back, and Beckman once more let them all know she'd be happy to have them work for her again.

In the meantime, Chuck Bartowski once again proved he was far and away the perfect match for Sarah Walker and Zachary Levi and Yvonne Strahovski proved for the 91st time how beautifully they play off one another. Yes, Chuck, Sarah and the viewers went through some tough and trying times to get to a happy ending, but the message was simple at the end of this wonderful TV series: Chuck and Sarah are together and everything will be okay. In other words... Don't freak out.